SpaceDock
Shred till your dead
I've installed pickups into ten plus guitars over the years, Strats, Jacksons, Ibanez, and it's never easy. Active pickups are always so finicky with the grounding, I had to route out an S5470 to get the pickups in all the way once.
These came with screws that don't even fit the tab holes and were WAY too long for almost any guitar body. I think pickup companies expect people are only installing in Les Pauls by their shit directions and included parts.
To fit these into my LACS I needed to file the round tabs to fit into the triangle routes. I needed foam from under some old pickups to balance them out as they were tightened down. The poles under the pickups are so long these barely fit at all.
I won't even go into trying to get the wiring correct since Duncan and Dimarzio have different wiring color codes and the internet is filled with incorrect diagrams.
That said, these rock balls. The Nazgul sounds huge and really adds some nice crunch. The Sentient is very high output for a neck but doesn't distort clean. Really nice combo for metal, a huge step up from the D-activator PAF combo that was in here.
The wrapping is kinda stringy around the edges and I'm not sure if these will get torn up after a year or so, we'll find out...
TLDR? Here's your pics!
These came with screws that don't even fit the tab holes and were WAY too long for almost any guitar body. I think pickup companies expect people are only installing in Les Pauls by their shit directions and included parts.
To fit these into my LACS I needed to file the round tabs to fit into the triangle routes. I needed foam from under some old pickups to balance them out as they were tightened down. The poles under the pickups are so long these barely fit at all.
I won't even go into trying to get the wiring correct since Duncan and Dimarzio have different wiring color codes and the internet is filled with incorrect diagrams.
That said, these rock balls. The Nazgul sounds huge and really adds some nice crunch. The Sentient is very high output for a neck but doesn't distort clean. Really nice combo for metal, a huge step up from the D-activator PAF combo that was in here.
The wrapping is kinda stringy around the edges and I'm not sure if these will get torn up after a year or so, we'll find out...
TLDR? Here's your pics!
not to mention that the SD's were already taller than the New7's in the guitar stock. A little routing, some foam, and a pot wax later, they're killer pickups in the guitar, just not quite what I'm going for. 
